#graph

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#death #new #terrors

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#guess #humiliated #i #lit #look

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. ↗

— Leon Edel

#become #biographer #eyes #four #literary

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #biography #had #heart #hearts

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#camp #decided #digging #finally #further

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

#author #autobiography #based #case #distress

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#character #character development #development #furthers #graphic

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#i #mathematician #representations #stuck

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#new-york-city #new-york-city